I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were…

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not…

— Steve Buscemi

To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our…

— David Blunkett

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.

— Andrew Solomon

“When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchmarks need an unremitting reset. ("Another empty room")”

— Erik Pevernagie

“By staging our dreams and spreading our wings into real-life, sheltered from the terror of failure, we can enhance our quest for the benchmarks…

— Erik Pevernagie

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“absolutes in performance benchmarks are as elusive as consensus in open source projects!”

— Mark Lutz

“As we walk through the secretive doors of our remembrance, looking for forgotten benchmarks of our history, we can find unexpected escape hatches opening…

— Erik Pevernagie

I'm actually fighting my own benchmarks in a lot of ways. The number of games that I've managed to win for my country and…

— Ravichandran Ashwin

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

— James Dyson

We don't have a studio, we don't have a radio station, we don't have anybody breathing down our necks to make a budget. We…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not…

— Adam Green

The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.

— Bill Pullman

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s…

— Chaz Brenchley

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,…

— Amy Sedaris